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Sumit SinghalSumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

East, the city; West, the canal: Two opposite points, drawing a bridge from the city to the nature and inviting the visitor to get away from the noise and the movement. The building is offering a peaceful view and a quiet atmosphere to concentrate and read.

South: the outside space stretches the interior volumes.

A screen made out of steel blades creates a partition between the outside and the inside world: this enables to preserve calm and serenity. It also offers the visitor a feeling of protection and helps to keep concentrated.

The building is composed of different layers. The first layer, made of thin crossbars, protects from the sun and the outside perturbations. It brings intimacy to the building designed for reading and concentrating.

The second one, a glass box, shelters the public spaces, the lobby and the reading areas.

The third one, opaque, encloses the store rooms, the ‘treasure’ of the building, the technical areas and staff rooms.

The building seems light and ethereal thanks to the fragmentation of the structure.

The structure is made of many small elements creating rhythms, frames, filters and different angles of vision depending on the location of the visitor in the space: this creates a kinetic vision of the construction.